Transitional Justice in Established Democracies
Subtitle: A Political Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 21, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780230285231
Description: Truth commissions, official apologies and reparations are just some of the transitional justice mechanisms embraced by established democracies. This groundbreaking work of political theory explains how these forms of state redress repair the damage state wrongdoing inflicts upon political legitimacy. Richly illustrated with real-life examples, the book's 'legitimating theory' explains the connections, and the conflicts, between the transitional practice of administrative, corrective and restorative justice. The book shows how political responses to state wrongdoing are part of a larger transitional history of the post-War 'rights revolution' in the settler democracies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The result is an incisive theoretical exploration that not only explains the rectificatory work of established democracies but also provides new ways to think about the broader field of transitional justice.
Notes: Source title: Transitional Justice in Established Democracies: A Political Theory (International Political Theory)